Los Angeles: Jared Leto has splashed out USD 5 million on a new home in Los Angeles that features a bomb shelter.

The 'Dallas Buyers Club' star, 43, has purchased an eight-bedroom mansion in Hollywood Hills West, which used to form part of the Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, where the Pentagon's motion picture and photograph unit processed and edited video footage and photographs of nuclear tests, missile firings and rocket launches, reported Variety online.

The lavish 1940s compound sits on 1.5-acres and also swimming pool, large car park, soundstage, art galleries, a movie theatre and 12 bathrooms along with the bomb shelter.

The Oscar-winning bought the property - which last sold two decades ago for USD 750,000 - off-market in a private sale.